Pirates armed with rapid-fire machine guns and rocket launchers attacked the north shore of Lake Noqua, located in the core area between Cotonou and Bodonov. Of course, the Benin authorities were shocked and worried about the current situation.
While the pirates were attacking the manor on the north shore of Lake Norquay, they also deployed a small number of men at the waterway where Lake Norquay connects to the sea and in the southeast of Cotonou. Although these pirates did not play any role in the attack on the manor, the so-called thieves do not leave empty-handed.
, and without strict discipline, they carried out several armed robberies and became more and more unscrupulous. Also known as Cotonou, Bodonov and others became more and more unsettled.
After the attack, the Benin Navy's guided missile frigate procurement plan, which had been shelved for three years, was quickly passed by Congress in order to further strengthen the coastal defense of Cotonou, Bodonov and other places. The Cotonou police also started to prepare for more
Although the marine police force is powerful, the Benin authorities and society are still extremely disappointed with this poor performance of the military and police without any awareness.
Of course, the outside world does not know the details of the fierce battle. News reports only describe the sudden and crazy ferocity of the security personnel provided by Tubman Security Consultants, who used only more than 20 light firearms to defeat the pirates carrying rapid-fire machine guns and rocket launchers.
The media did not hesitate to praise Duan Zhen's attack, and the media was generous with its praise. The combat personnel of Tubman Security Consulting Company became like raging kings.
With absolutely limited casualties, they defeated the crazy attack that had been planned by the pirates for a long time and killed nearly fifty pirates. This certainly made the outside world admire the strength of Tubman Security Consultants, a young mercenary company.
Within half a month, Tubman Security Consultants received a flurry of orders. Most of them came from wealthy people, dignitaries, and dignitaries in the Gulf of Guinea region who wanted to hire elite bodyguards from Tubman Security Consultants.
Replace previously unsatisfactory employees.
In the early stage, Tubman Security Consulting Company will of course focus on accepting business such as productive assets or waterways, transportation security, etc. located in Benin. During the business negotiation, it will also contact these companies who come from Benin or have close connections with Benin’s senior officials.
Customers contacted complained that if they could be equipped with more advanced weapons, this attack would never have been so "heavy" in casualties, and all the pirates who attacked could have been buried in Lake Norquay, instead of being killed by one in the end.
The pirates on the ship successfully escaped.
Driven by all parties, mainly Cao Mo who did not hesitate to stop work at all construction sites in Cotonou, the President of Benin finally signed a decree in late April, allowing Tubman Security Consultants to purchase a special permit list.
Weapons and equipment on the list, and the equipment can be used legally within the space and time range of Benin's special license.
In addition, the President of Benin also signed a decree authorizing Tubman Security Consultants to build a paramilitary training camp base under the supervision of the Benin Ministry of Defense on the basis of a fishing port acquired in eastern Oguta.
Tubman Security Consulting Company has been established for a few years. In recent years, it has recruited young people from Ibogu, Sika and other tribes, and from the descendants of Drake's colonists for rigorous training. It has also carefully selected a group of people from various countries in the Gulf of Guinea.
It can be said that retired professional soldiers have initially built up an elite mercenary team.
This time, in order to win over the Benin military, a group of elite professional soldiers were recruited from the Benin navy and army.
No matter how exhausted the African army is, it can still hire some cooperative combat training personnel based on the standard of one in a hundred or one in a thousand.
Whether it is Benin, Kanem, Akwa, or Durua, only those officers who come from noble families such as chiefs have no worries about their future after retirement.
For the vast majority of professional soldiers, after leaving the army, it is difficult for them to integrate into secular life with the skills they have trained for more than ten or twenty years and the strict routine they follow.
Even in European and American countries, it is extremely difficult for professional soldiers to get a good job after retiring, let alone African countries.
Applying for a mercenary company is an excellent way out for retired military personnel, but many of the most active mercenary companies in Africa are mainly controlled by European and American capital. They have little interest in recruiting local retired officers in Africa. Ordinary locals
In security companies, the employee income is a bit pitiful. Otherwise, how can a Chinese businessman with an income of just over 100,000 yuan live a luxurious life with a cook and bodyguards?
Tubman Security Consulting Company was the first company to recruit retired elite professional soldiers from Africa at high salaries on a large scale. Yang Deshan, Xie Sipeng and others had deep doubts at first. They even approached Cao Mo many times for suggestions to recruit retired soldiers from China to Africa.
, it was Cao Mo who overcame all opinions and decided that the security forces would also be completely managed on a localized basis, but he would personally participate in the screening of all grassroots combatants.
Tubman Security Consulting Company recruits and trains its employees completely according to the standards of a mercenary company. In addition to high personal insurance, the monthly salary of its special training personnel is between one thousand and fifteen million US dollars.
For the retired elite professional soldiers in Africa, this is a sky-high price, and they are qualified to choose the best among the best.
However, due to the failure to directly open the last barrier from the top of a country, Tubman Security Consulting Company only has team building without corresponding weapons and equipment. Its development has always been greatly restricted and it is unable to become a truly first-class mercenary.
Company ranks.
Although the President of Benin signed a decree this time, the heavy weapons licensed to purchase equipment include two armed speedboats and two light armed helicopters.
, except for the six light armored vehicles, they still mainly use portable weapons. However, with the purchase price of 50 million US dollars, Tubman Security Consulting Company suddenly changed from a gun to a gun, and the style was completely different.
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After safety was "guaranteed", not only the Cotonou Second Power Plant, but also the Cotonou Refinery pressed the "start" button again after being suspended for two months. The Cotonou Steel Plant with a total investment of more than 500 million US dollars, copper
The smelter also quickly laid the foundation stone and started construction.
At the same time, Tubman Security Consultants' new training camp base located south of Bodonov and west of Oguta is under construction at a faster pace.
The new training camp base is located on an old fishing port.
The coastal terrain near here is complex, and for a long time only local spindle-shaped fishing boats could go out to sea from here.
In terms of geological, topographic and waterway conditions, at most one or two 10,000- to 20,000-ton docks can be built, and there is no possibility of building large deep-water docks.
Of course, the new training camp base, even if it has a paramilitary nature, will be supervised by the special agency of the Benin Ministry of National Defense. But in the final analysis, Cao Mo wants to establish a maritime mobile assault team here, not a regular navy.
, including the training camp base, we also plan to invest 10 million US dollars in infrastructure.
Even if it is just to build a 10,000-ton dock, it is enough. After all, even the Benin Navy currently does not have ships exceeding 10,000 tons!
The site of the base is about 40 kilometers away from the mouth of Lake Norquay and about 40 kilometers away from Lake Conero. Abnormal situations on both sides can be taken care of in time. However, the maritime mobile armed force formed by Tubman Security Consulting Company wants to
To enter the waters of Kanem, you still need to obtain a special permission from Kanem.
Cao Mo accompanied Jacques Césaire, senior vice president of Langhua Petroleum Group, on the construction site that had become muddy after the heavy rain, and listened to the project leader's introduction to the construction plan for the training camp base.
Although Cao Moqing expected that the training camp base could be put into use earlier, the infrastructure here is too lagging behind, and large-scale construction facilities have only just begun.
Except for three rows of workers' dormitories converted from containers and a two-story office building and warehouse with mottled walls left over from the fishing port, the surrounding area is deserted and overgrown with grass. There are no transmission lines, so don't expect to have a cold storage or the like.
Facilities, after so long, there is still a strong smell of fish and crab.
In this place, three hundred construction workers are already in place, and the road connecting Oguta town and the base is also under construction at the same time.
This also demonstrates Cao Mo's determination to overcome all difficulties and prioritize the construction of an independent training camp base so that he can independently go to sea outside the Benin Sea to fight against rampant pirates.
Over at Lake Norquay Manor, Cao Mo never lived there again, and it still retained its original appearance when it was attacked. The main building was bombed by rockets, the bulletproof vehicle was torn apart by rapid-fire machine guns, the high-speed speedboat was bombed at the estuary, etc.
Everything remained the same. Before arriving at Augusta, Jacques Césaire, accompanied by Sturgeon, visited the manor after the attack on Lake Norquay.
Jacques Césaire, who was now over sixty years old, had a face that looked as if it had been carved by the weather, full of fine wrinkles, but he also looked extremely determined.
At that time, he was the person in charge of the Quekotos Oilfield of Langhua Petroleum Group and stayed at Quekotos for two years.
After the group's board of directors made the decision to withdraw from the Quekotos Oilfield, the daily duty and maintenance of the three oil production platforms, although it was already a very small matter at the level of the entire Langhua Petroleum Group, he still insisted on personally taking charge of every detail.
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In the past, more than twenty of his employees were killed by Quekotos, including his eldest son, but he was not afraid of this, and the anger and hatred in his heart never subsided.
Within the Langhua Petroleum Group, he has always been firmly opposed to the sale of the Quekotos oil field, and has been actively lobbying Kanem and several southern Gulf of Guinea countries to jointly combat the rampant piracy forces and reopen the Quekotos seabed.
Exploitation of oil fields.
However, the main members of the board of directors of Langhua Petroleum want to stop losses in time while the oil price is high, rather than continue to consume in that sinful place like a bottomless pit.
The Quekotos drilling robbery was still too sensational in European and American society. Even though some oil companies wanted to take advantage of the fire, the price offered could not satisfy Langhua Petroleum, so the matter dragged on.
After the attack on Lake Norquay Manor, European and American media also paid great attention to it because of the large number of casualties.
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Jacques Césaire noticed the relevant reports almost immediately, and even took the initiative to contact him immediately to ask for more detailed details of the attack.
Zhou Han did not deliberately compile some specific clues to draw the world's attention to the Quecotos drilling robbery. Jacques Césaire took the initiative to reveal that the Quecotos drilling robbery was not disclosed to the public at the time.
Details are sent over.
Both sides soon found more evidence proving the attack on Lake Norquay from many details, such as the tattoos and facial features of the pirates who were attacked, as well as the special Quin dialect during the attack, special bone beads, clothing fabrics, etc.
The pirates in the manor are the same group of murderers who killed more than 20 employees of Langhua Petroleum Group in the Quekotos drilling robbery.
After these evidences were reported by the media, even if some senior officials of Langhua Petroleum Group did not want to bring up the past, they still had to stand up and urge Interpol and Durua, the country where Quekotos is located, to step up their investigation of the massacre that year.
Investigation of robbery.
Sturgeon rushed to Paris twice during this period to meet with Jacques Césaire and other senior officials of Langhua Petroleum Group to discuss the restart of the Quekotos offshore drilling platform.
Langhua Petroleum spent US$2 billion to acquire the Quekotos offshore oil field, and the fair value of the Quekotos Oilfield is over US$3 billion, as oil prices have not yet fully recovered from the economic crisis.
Unable to find a suitable next home for sale, Langhua Petroleum cannot think of leaving it vacant.
The current situation not only fails to generate any revenue, but also costs tens of millions of dollars in duty and maintenance expenses every year.
However, in addition to the heavy economic losses caused by frequent attacks in those two years, another key reason was the tragic casualties of European and American employees. The senior management of the board of directors and major investors of Langhua Petroleum were fiercely criticized by left-wing public opinion in France, making them afraid to raise the issue.
The matter of restarting.
Of course, they have not thought of contracting out the mining and transportation business.
However, in addition to piracy, domestic unrest in Durua has also occurred from time to time in recent years. Which oil company is willing to enter high-risk areas to do low-profit outsourcing business?
Wouldn't it be nice for oil exploration companies with sufficient strength to directly participate in the development of oil fields in other African regions? Do they need to work for Langhua Petroleum?
Those small companies who want to make hard-earned money come to visit? Who knows if they were sent by the mastermind behind the scenes? Did Langhua Petroleum help count the money after it was sold?
Now that the core investor and controlling shareholder of the Furkov Petrochemical Group has suffered such a rampant attack, they came over with the same hatred and hatred and proposed to outsource the mining and transportation business of the Quekotos Oil Field. At least in their intentions.
No problem.
The outsourcing conditions proposed by the Furkov Petrochemical Group are also quite generous. They just want to hand over the extracted crude oil to the petrochemical and refinery plants of the Furkov Petrochemical Group for digestion.
This is hardly a condition.
Although Lange Petroleum also has a large refinery on the west coast of France, the high-quality crude oil extracted from Quecotos has a longer journey to transport back to the west coast of France, and the transportation cost is higher, right?
The Quekotos Oilfield is an idle asset of Langhua Petroleum. Not only is it unable to generate profits, but it also consumes a large amount of maintenance fees every year. Before it can successfully find a buyer to sell it, even if it can create 300 to 500 million U.S. dollars in benefits for the group every year, it will be
Make money!
Therefore, after Sturgeon left for Paris twice and the Langhua Petroleum negotiation and inspection team returned to the Gulf of Guinea, they inspected the production and crude oil terminals of the Furkov Petrochemical Group once and the basic situation of the Furkov Petrochemical Group, Guinea
After the shipping company organized crude oil extraction and assessed the basic capabilities of transportation, the two parties quickly negotiated cooperation terms with an efficiency unimaginable in Europe. Jacques Césaire came to formally sign the agreement on behalf of Langhua Petroleum this time.
Outsourcing mining and transportation does not mean that Langhua Petroleum will ignore it. Outsourcing will only hand over the most tiring and dangerous work to the Furkov Petrochemical Group. However, Langhua Petroleum will still set up safety facilities in the Gulf of Guinea.
and the Office of Regulatory Affairs.
In addition to maintaining comprehensive technical and financial supervision and guidance on the extraction and transportation operations of the Quekotos Oilfield, Langhua Petroleum will also directly participate in the security of the mining platform and transportation routes to maintain the security of the Quekotos oil field.
Actual control of the Si oil field.
Yagu Sezer turned down all his other positions at Langhua Petroleum and rushed here to take charge of the safety and regulatory affairs office. His own intention was not to think about whether the Fulkov Petrochemical Group would steal oil or something.
, actually wanted to participate in the crackdown on the pirates of Quekotos.
Therefore, he also strongly recommended that the Office of Safety and Regulatory Affairs be built next to the new training camp base of Tubman Security Consultants, so that the armed mercenaries employed by Langhua Petroleum can communicate with Tubman Security Consultants' offshore training base.
Combat forces jointly assume the responsibility of combating pirate forces.
Yagu Césaire was a resolute man. He did not think that the conditions here were harsh because of the desolation. Cao Mo returned to the Tubman family's manor in Augusta, and he insisted on staying at the training camp site to start work directly.
Cao Mo also followed Jacob Césaire, who, together with Sturgeon, Tubman Jr. and others, drove out of the training camp site before dark.
"Cesaire just didn't mention the Evans Foundation in the past two days. It's impossible that he didn't suspect the Evans Foundation, right?" Accompanying Yagu Césaire and other Langhua Petroleum staff flew to Bayern from Paris.
Ning's Sturgeon was sitting in the car, looking at the sunset refracting into the car through the rearview mirror, and asked with some confusion.
"We have also dug out the reporter who pointed the finger of the Quakertos drilling robbery directly at the Evans Foundation in the report. That reporter was a classmate of Jacques Césaire when he was studying at the University of Paris.
, was forced to resign after the Evans Foundation sued the newspaper where he worked. It seemed that he would have no problem with the support of Langhua Petroleum and Jacques Césaire, but the wife and daughter of this investigative reporter died within a year.
Regarding Yu Qi Qi's car accident," Cao Mo leaned back in his chair and said, "Jacques Césaire probably believed that until direct evidence was found, public criticism and questioning were actually meaningless, right?
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"So damn black!" Sturgeon said in broken Chinese a national curse.